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My bookshelf

Like the title says. These are some of the paper references I use in my work as a translator and editor. (The links take you to amazon.co.jp pages on the things.) Of course I do plenty of research and look up lots of terms online, but Wikipedia and Google and so on have yet to [...]

New old movies

If you live in Japan, you get to watch American movies three months later than everyone else, and for more money to boot. Well, in the theater, anyway; if you’re renting disks it’s quite affordable but you get to wait six months instead. I’ve never gotten into the whole “download movies from the internets” thing, [...]